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33 books

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

Mohammed El-Kurd

256 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
nonfiction poetry
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea by Thomas Suárez

Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea

Thomas Suárez

470 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
nonfiction history politics medium-paced
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

112 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

319 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb

Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020

Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb

392 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
nonfiction classics literary politics religion challenging informative medium-paced
Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee

Jade Legacy

The Green Bone Saga #3

Fonda Lee

716 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
fiction fantasy adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
nonfiction history nature politics informative reflective medium-paced
Jade City by Fonda Lee

Jade City

The Green Bone Saga #1

Fonda Lee

560 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

368 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0saraelga's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced